In your case you had actual evidence that XP SP2 would not work for you (i.e. on the bad motherboard).
What annoys me is all the people that wont even try XPSP2 even on one machine and dont have any evidence to say one way or the other whether XPSP2 will or wont work.
I think one of the problems with CMYK is that every CMYK output device (printers, imagesetters, plotters, printing presses etc) needs its own translation logic/tables to translate the colors into CMYK that will look like what the artist wants when the CMYK is output to the device. Device makers will give this information to companies like Adobe but would be reluctant to give it to developers of an open source program (especially under a licence that is open-source friendly)
I use OpenOffice and I have yet to find a single Word document that it cant open and read. The formatting may not be pixel accurate to what Word would display but so what, its accurate enough that I can understand what the document is saying. As for exports, I can save in PDF. Even where I do need to save as a Word document, I have yet to find an OpenOffice document that, when exported as a Word document, cant be opened, read and used properly by Word.
Someone should make a site hosting a pile of testcase documents in word format that, when loaded into OpenOffice, do not read & render properly, preferably with screenshots of what they look like in Word. Such a thing would enable the OpenOffice team to improve their import filters to render the documents correctly.
Also, someone should post documents (in OpenOffice format/ODF) that, when exported to a Word document with the latest filters, are unusable in Word (along with a screenshot of what they look like in Word to demonstrate that they are unusable). Such documents would enable the OpenOffice team to improve their export filters to produce better output.
ok then, so why DOESNT GIMP have CMYK support? Is it just a matter of someone saying "I will add CMYK support to GIMP" and writing some code? Or is there something more?
I still dont understand why people (and companies) are reluctant to install XP SP2...
I run XP SP2 on my home machine and the only things I found that needed to be upgraded were Norton Anti-Virus (updates that are part of the normal update cycle anyway), NuMega SoftIce (considering the low-level stuff SoftIce does thats hardly surprising) and possibly Nero Burning Rom.
I dont use the XP firewall (my WiFi broadband router will block anything trying to come in).
Any corporation that hasnt A.Recieved a definitive notice from specifically stating that is incompatible with XP SP2 or B.set up a test system, installed all the apps they use on it and found that there is something they use that is incompatible with XP SP2 and doesnt have a compatible upgrade they can use (or afford) or C.Rolled out XP SP2 to everyone is not a very good company. Not rolling out XP SP2 because "some of the apps we use might break" is not good enough IMO, they should test these apps and find out that they dont work before saying no to XP SP2. (obviously this applies to large corporations with dedicated IT staff and not small shops)
Firstly, IE is the MSHTML rendering engine which many applications use to render HTML (including HTML Help and MSDN Library, just to name 2) Secondly, it is the SHDOCVW activex control which is a wrapper around MSHTML and can be embedded in any application to give it HTML rendering Thirdly, it is a set of internet dlls (like WININET.DLL and others) that provide internet functionality (such as http and https data transfers and other things) which are used by MSHTML and also by other apps that dont use MSHTML. Forthly, it is the iexplore.exe program which is basicly a wrapper around the SHDOCVW control to provide an actual browser. And Fifthly, it is the shell services (IE and shell/explorer are linked together and would be difficult to seperate)
As for the shell/IE integration, there are reasons why it is there. For example, try to access a ftp:// url with IE, it will open in an explorer window.
The code that is floating about is no-where near complete. There is code for NT4 is that is apparently more complete than the code for 2000 but neither set of code is complete enough to produce a working windows system with.
Basicly, its cheaper to not comply with the DOJ request than it is to comply. Especially since if they comply now, the DOJ can make another request later. Also, remember that complying with the DOJ doesnt earn them ad revenue, going into china does.
Which CPU does it run on? Which executable format does it use? Unless its running on dedicated hardware with really strong encryption (and even then, thats no gaurantee), it is possible to reverse engineer any piece of code piece by piece (for example, start with the first instructions the program executes and unwrap it from there). If you wanted to go deep, you could use an ICE or similar (or a software emulator with a built-in debugger that cant be detected from the emulated side)
Having google available in china may actually HURT censorship since it makes it easier for people to one-up the censors by looking for open proxies and other ways around the censorship. (heck, computer geeks have been using google for just that purpose to find ways around corporate filters for ages now)
If the US government said "hand over the data or you cant operate in america anymore", google would comply. Just like they complied when governments in europe required they remove nazi related stuff.
Thing is, we need china. Just look around your desk/cube/office/room/whatever and look for things that say "made in china". Not to mention things that dont say "made in china" but are in some way chinese or partially chinese anyway.
The phone on my desk at work says "made in china" on it. My TV and DVD player are both chinese. And thats just what I can find/think of off the top of my head.
China does not need google, there are plenty of chinese search engines that WILL comply with the chinese government.
Also, they have stated that they will tell users when search results have been removed in order to comply with a chinese government request so the people searching can clearly see that its the fault of the government that their search results arent as good as they could be, not google.
If people wrote their passwords down, failed to lock their PCs when they went to lunch, didnt wear their badges or left keys and passes lying around where I work, they would be in trouble (possibly fired, possibly escorted out-of-building, possibly less serious than that)
Any company with stuff to protect should be doing the same...
2 simple options for computer voting: 1.Voter selects vote on touch screen, vote is recorded in database (which could simply be a match between candidate and # of votes). Also, paper ballot is printed with human readable vote and machine readable barcode. If there is a dispute in the database count, the barcodes can be scanned or the human readable votes can be counted. 2.Same as 1 except with no internal database and the barcodes being the primary method of counting
Neither option requires any computer to know who voted for who, it just records how many people voted for which guy (which is all that matters in an election). The hardware could either be PC hardware or some suitable embedded system (perhaps with an ARM or something) and the software could be easily written.
I wouldnt be surprised if someone writes a bootloader of some kind that is compatible with the new macs. Basicly, the macs would load said bootloader and then that could be used to call the normal windows bootloader.
The same is true of just about any government decisions, governments should let the experts in the field make decisions about which is better.
For example, when the USAF was buying the new fighter jets (the one where boeing and someone else were competing), the government did the smart thing and let the USAF decide which fighter was the better one (in terms of performance, purchase price, running cost etc etc). The same should apply here. Let the IT guys decide which systems are best for the MA government departments.
When it came down to a choice of allowing flash ads vs not having enough advertisers to pay the bills, the choice was clear.
Unfortunatly, advertisers want flash ads (which isnt surprising, a flash ads is easier to create and potentially a smaller file than the same ad as an animated gif due to the vector nature of flash files) and slashdot has to comply to get the advertisers.
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In your case you had actual evidence that XP SP2 would not work for you (i.e. on the bad motherboard).
What annoys me is all the people that wont even try XPSP2 even on one machine and dont have any evidence to say one way or the other whether XPSP2 will or wont work.
Only problem is getting permission from the ATF to legally purchase, ship, store, assemble and fire enough rocket fuel to carry out the test :)
I think one of the problems with CMYK is that every CMYK output device (printers, imagesetters, plotters, printing presses etc) needs its own translation logic/tables to translate the colors into CMYK that will look like what the artist wants when the CMYK is output to the device. Device makers will give this information to companies like Adobe but would be reluctant to give it to developers of an open source program (especially under a licence that is open-source friendly)
I use OpenOffice and I have yet to find a single Word document that it cant open and read. The formatting may not be pixel accurate to what Word would display but so what, its accurate enough that I can understand what the document is saying.
As for exports, I can save in PDF.
Even where I do need to save as a Word document, I have yet to find an OpenOffice document that, when exported as a Word document, cant be opened, read and used properly by Word.
Someone should make a site hosting a pile of testcase documents in word format that, when loaded into OpenOffice, do not read & render properly, preferably with screenshots of what they look like in Word. Such a thing would enable the OpenOffice team to improve their import filters to render the documents correctly.
Also, someone should post documents (in OpenOffice format/ODF) that, when exported to a Word document with the latest filters, are unusable in Word (along with a screenshot of what they look like in Word to demonstrate that they are unusable). Such documents would enable the OpenOffice team to improve their export filters to produce better output.
Arent there already linux programs that can pull email from an exchange server?
ok then, so why DOESNT GIMP have CMYK support?
Is it just a matter of someone saying "I will add CMYK support to GIMP" and writing some code?
Or is there something more?
I still dont understand why people (and companies) are reluctant to install XP SP2...
I run XP SP2 on my home machine and the only things I found that needed to be upgraded were Norton Anti-Virus (updates that are part of the normal update cycle anyway), NuMega SoftIce (considering the low-level stuff SoftIce does thats hardly surprising) and possibly Nero Burning Rom.
I dont use the XP firewall (my WiFi broadband router will block anything trying to come in).
Any corporation that hasnt A.Recieved a definitive notice from specifically stating that is incompatible with XP SP2 or B.set up a test system, installed all the apps they use on it and found that there is something they use that is incompatible with XP SP2 and doesnt have a compatible upgrade they can use (or afford) or C.Rolled out XP SP2 to everyone
is not a very good company.
Not rolling out XP SP2 because "some of the apps we use might break" is not good enough IMO, they should test these apps and find out that they dont work before saying no to XP SP2. (obviously this applies to large corporations with dedicated IT staff and not small shops)
You have to remember just what IE actually IS.
Firstly, IE is the MSHTML rendering engine which many applications use to render HTML (including HTML Help and MSDN Library, just to name 2)
Secondly, it is the SHDOCVW activex control which is a wrapper around MSHTML and can be embedded in any application to give it HTML rendering
Thirdly, it is a set of internet dlls (like WININET.DLL and others) that provide internet functionality (such as http and https data transfers and other things) which are used by MSHTML and also by other apps that dont use MSHTML.
Forthly, it is the iexplore.exe program which is basicly a wrapper around the SHDOCVW control to provide an actual browser.
And Fifthly, it is the shell services (IE and shell/explorer are linked together and would be difficult to seperate)
As for the shell/IE integration, there are reasons why it is there. For example, try to access a ftp:// url with IE, it will open in an explorer window.
Personally, I think that they should make TRON in the style of the Tron 2.0 first person game.
The code that is floating about is no-where near complete.
There is code for NT4 is that is apparently more complete than the code for 2000 but neither set of code is complete enough to produce a working windows system with.
If this means an end to the "limited availabillity" of disney films (try and get hold of The Little Mermaid in any format for example), GO STEVE.
Basicly, its cheaper to not comply with the DOJ request than it is to comply. Especially since if they comply now, the DOJ can make another request later.
Also, remember that complying with the DOJ doesnt earn them ad revenue, going into china does.
Which CPU does it run on?
Which executable format does it use?
Unless its running on dedicated hardware with really strong encryption (and even then, thats no gaurantee), it is possible to reverse engineer any piece of code piece by piece (for example, start with the first instructions the program executes and unwrap it from there). If you wanted to go deep, you could use an ICE or similar (or a software emulator with a built-in debugger that cant be detected from the emulated side)
Having google available in china may actually HURT censorship since it makes it easier for people to one-up the censors by looking for open proxies and other ways around the censorship. (heck, computer geeks have been using google for just that purpose to find ways around corporate filters for ages now)
If the US government said "hand over the data or you cant operate in america anymore", google would comply. Just like they complied when governments in europe required they remove nazi related stuff.
Thing is, we need china.
Just look around your desk/cube/office/room/whatever and look for things that say "made in china". Not to mention things that dont say "made in china" but are in some way chinese or partially chinese anyway.
The phone on my desk at work says "made in china" on it.
My TV and DVD player are both chinese.
And thats just what I can find/think of off the top of my head.
China does not need google, there are plenty of chinese search engines that WILL comply with the chinese government.
Also, they have stated that they will tell users when search results have been removed in order to comply with a chinese government request so the people searching can clearly see that its the fault of the government that their search results arent as good as they could be, not google.
Even the mighty News Corporation (run by Rupert Murdoch) have bowed down to the chinese government.
Where I work, they provided a full 2 weeks or so of training in a bunch of things that they expect us to know.
If people wrote their passwords down, failed to lock their PCs when they went to lunch, didnt wear their badges or left keys and passes lying around where I work, they would be in trouble (possibly fired, possibly escorted out-of-building, possibly less serious than that)
Any company with stuff to protect should be doing the same...
2 simple options for computer voting:
1.Voter selects vote on touch screen, vote is recorded in database (which could simply be a match between candidate and # of votes). Also, paper ballot is printed with human readable vote and machine readable barcode. If there is a dispute in the database count, the barcodes can be scanned or the human readable votes can be counted.
2.Same as 1 except with no internal database and the barcodes being the primary method of counting
Neither option requires any computer to know who voted for who, it just records how many people voted for which guy (which is all that matters in an election). The hardware could either be PC hardware or some suitable embedded system (perhaps with an ARM or something) and the software could be easily written.
Perhaps the ReactOS team has code or knowledge that would help in this area...
I wouldnt be surprised if someone writes a bootloader of some kind that is compatible with the new macs. Basicly, the macs would load said bootloader and then that could be used to call the normal windows bootloader.
and not polititions who have no idea about IT.
The same is true of just about any government decisions, governments should let the experts in the field make decisions about which is better.
For example, when the USAF was buying the new fighter jets (the one where boeing and someone else were competing), the government did the smart thing and let the USAF decide which fighter was the better one (in terms of performance, purchase price, running cost etc etc).
The same should apply here. Let the IT guys decide which systems are best for the MA government departments.
When it came down to a choice of allowing flash ads vs not having enough advertisers to pay the bills, the choice was clear.
Unfortunatly, advertisers want flash ads (which isnt surprising, a flash ads is easier to create and potentially a smaller file than the same ad as an animated gif due to the vector nature of flash files) and slashdot has to comply to get the advertisers.